The Snowbird Poems.The Snowbird snowbird: see junco. Poems Robert Kroetsch Robert Kroetsch (born June 26, 1927) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and non-fiction writer. He was born in Heisler, Alberta and currently lives in [Winnipeg, Manitoba. He taught for many years at the University of Manitoba. In 2004 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. University of Alberta Press The University of Alberta Press (UAP) is a publishing house and a division of the University of Alberta that engages in academic publishing. Overview UAP is situated in Ring House 2 on the University of Alberta campus, located in Edmonton, Alberta, and publishes an Ring House 2, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E1 0888644264 $24.95 www.uap.ualberta.ca The Snowbird Poems is an impressive anthology of the poetry of Canadian literary icon Robert Kroetsch. There is the matter of the crabapple tree./There it stands, wintering, you might say,/in the small front yard/between the veranda and the sidewalk.//Snow, you may have noticed, has seated itself/in the two wicker chairs on the veranda./As for the sidewalk,/we'll get to that in a moment.//The crabapple tree appears to be posing/for a woodcut woodcut Design printed from a plank of wood incised parallel to the vertical axis of the wood's grain. One of the oldest methods of making prints, it was used in China to decorate textiles from the 5th century. , possible by Hiroshige,/his Japanese trees precise, angular, yet graceful/in their delicate tracings of snow.//But this is a January morning/on 18th Avenue SW, Calgary./I have just now shoveled the sidewalk/for the fifth time in the past three days. |
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